Not eating on time will hurt the stomach, spicy food will stimulate the stomach, and the stomach will be uncomfortable when under stress. According to statistics, the incidence of gastrointestinal disease in some parts of China has quadrupled compared to six years ago, and a significant proportion of these patients are office workers.
China is a “gastric disease country”, in the 1.3 billion population, gastrointestinal disease patients about 120 million, of which the middle-aged and elderly account for more than 70%, chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer is more common, the incidence rate of 30% and 10% respectively. Statistics from the gastroenterology clinic of our hospital in 2012 showed that nearly 60% of patients had felt symptoms of stomach acidity, stomach pain, bloating, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, weakness, indigestion, hiccups, anorexia, stomach cramps, etc. before going to the hospital for examination, but they often neglected to take precautions and only used common drugs that they always had at home to solve the problem temporarily.
In fact, the onset of gastric disease is a long process, raw, cold, hard, sour, spicy and other irritating food into the stomach will directly affect the work of the stomach, coupled with the patient’s metabolism, endocrine irregularities, resulting in insufficient secretion of gastric mucus, the stomach loses protection, the incidence of superficial gastritis, erosive gastritis, acute and chronic gastritis greatly increased. Stomach disease is often caused by neglect.
The stomach has 4 deadly pairs
The stomach is most afraid of four types of things, in the destruction of these “deadly rivals”, and then the good stomach will be bruised.
1, the most afraid of cold. Too cold or too hot food is like an ice ball or fireball, after eating the stomach will produce a stress response, so that the original can be very gentle digestive activities become abnormally hyperactive. Stomach is like warm, so meals, soups and drinks as much as possible to maintain the temperature of about 37 ℃. “Cold” also includes the properties of food, so people with bad stomach try to eat less cold nature of the food.
2.Be afraid of pickles. The rate of stomach cancer in northern China is much higher than that in the south, and one of the important reasons is that people often eat pickles, salted meat, salted fish and other foods. Pickles contain a large amount of nitrite and secondary amines, which can be synthesized into nitrosamines under the action of suitable acidity or bacteria in the stomach and have carcinogenic effects.
3, afraid of smoked and fried food. Smoked fish and bacon contain a lot of carcinogenic substances, such as 3-4 benzo(a)pyrene and cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Fried, baked, burnt food and reused high-temperature cooking oil also contain such carcinogenic substances and should be consumed sparingly.
4. Fear of alcohol. Stomach acid can only be secreted by the appropriate stimulation, but any excessive stimulation can cause damage to the stomach. Therefore, diet should be less greasy and fatty, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, eat more food containing vitamin A, E and B vitamins, and increase protein intake appropriately to protect the gastric mucosa. At the same time should control the intake of strong tea, coffee, alcohol and other stimulating foods.
The stomach has 5 good friends
We have to adjust the diet, on the “appetite”, often and the following 5 “good friends” to get along, the stomach will not be temperamental.
1, chew and swallow slowly. Food by chewing particles become smaller, part of the initial decomposition of starch, reducing the digestive burden of the stomach, indirectly reducing the power consumption of the stomach, to protect the work function of the stomach.
2, eat warm and juicy food. Food as far as possible contains soup, using stewing and steaming way of cooking. Dry food under the contraction of the stomach is easy to cause mechanical scratches on the stomach wall, while warm and juicy food in the gastrointestinal peristalsis more smoothly, well protected the gastric mucosa, and contains soup food than dry food is easier to mix evenly with stomach acid, favorable digestion.
3, three meals regularly and quantitatively. Do not overeat, diet with attention to food diversity and nutritional balance, to achieve a reasonable distribution of three meals, regular and quantitative. In general, breakfast is arranged in 6:30 ~ 8:30, lunch in 11:30 ~ 13:30, dinner in 18:00 ~ 20:00. Among them, breakfast is particularly important, should include cereals, animal food, dairy and vegetables and fruits four parts.
4, maintain a good mood. Someone has done a cruel experiment to lock the monkey in front of the wolf, and two hours later, the monkey’s stomach bleeds due to emotional tension. So relaxing mood is an important part of increasing appetite and promoting digestion and absorption.
5. Frequent massage. When there are frequent symptoms such as stomach distension and indigestion, gently massage up and down the abdomen, the uncomfortable symptoms will then be alleviated.
Be alert to the early manifestation of stomach cancer
Stomach cancer has always been difficult to be detected at an early stage, mainly because more than 70% of patients with early stage stomach cancer do not feel any discomfort. Even if some symptoms appear, such as stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, etc., they will think that it is just a stomach disease and usually buy and take medicine on their own instead of going to hospital for consultation. In this way, when patients go to the hospital only when the symptoms are serious, most of them are already in advanced stage of stomach cancer.
How to identify the alarm signals of stomach disease from your own feelings and symptom changes? The following points are worth noting.
Stomach pain loses the regularity of the original ulcer attack and is obviously different from usual.
the attack of stomach pain is not helped by eating or taking medicine, but worsened.
loss of appetite, weakness and significant weight loss when there was no significant change in appetite, weight or strength during previous episodes of gastric disease
Unexplained anemia or persistent black stools.
When the above GI symptoms occur, it is best to have a gastroscopy.
The following groups should be highly concerned about stomach cancer: people over 40 years old; people with history of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer; people with unreasonable diet structure, long-term consumption of pickled food and love of condiments such as fish sauce and shrimp paste.